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Maritime New Zealand has released its report into the collision between the
Auckland Coastguard vessel Rescue Alpha and a recreational personal water craft PWC 911, also known as a jet ski, on 13 June 2009. As a result of the collision the rider of the PWC 911 fractured her ankle and several ribs.
The PWC 911 was extensively damaged and has been “written off” as being uneconomical to repair.
Says Maritime New Zealand: “The overarching causation was determined as being the way the master of the Rescue Alpha applied the ‘stand on’ requirements contained in Maritime Rule 22.17. It was also determined that the lookout maintained by the rider of PWC 911 was not adequate to account for vessels not involved in the race event that were approaching side on, abeam.
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Southampton Magistrates Court has fined Captain Arvind Nath, the master of the gas carrier Sigas Sylvia £1,500, plus £1,000 costs for failing to discharge his duties properly to such an extent as to be likely to endanger ships, structures or individuals.
On the afternoon on Wednesday 6 January 2010, Sigas Sylvia, bound from Liverpool to Tees Port was transiting the Strait of Dover when it was involved with another tanker, MV Clipper Leander. This was seen on radar by HM Coastguard at Dover. Shortly after the incident, the Sigas Sylvia was warned by Dover Coastguard that they were about to aground on the Goodwin Sands.
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Jolly Roger Gets F&K'd
In what is almost a carboncopy of the Aurora/Simone collision reported earlier on MAC Australia’s Transport Safety Board investigation on the collision between the bulk carrier F&K and the fishing vessel Jolly Roger compounds poor lookout with an unquestioned assumption by officers on the larger vessel that they were on a parallel course and in an overtaking situation rather than a crossing situation.
Bob Couttie
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